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Oscar 2024: Academy names Best Picture

Oscar 2024: Academy names Best Picture

Oppenheimer, a 2023 biographical thriller film about the inventor of the atomic bomb, won seven Oscars at the 96th Academy Awards, including best picture and best director for Christopher Nolan. Irish actor Cillian Murphy won the …

Oscar for Best Picture goes to CODA

Oscar for Best Picture goes to CODA

Sian Heder’s CODA has won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The movie tells the story of a teenage girl who is the only hearing member of a deaf family. The motion picture features deaf actors portraying deaf characters. One of …

'Nomadland' wins Oscar for Best Picture

'Nomadland' wins Oscar for Best Picture

Chinese film director Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland has won the Academy Award for Best Picture. She also took home the Oscar for Best Director. Anthony Hopkins has won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Father and …

Trump comments on ‘Parasite’ Best Picture win

Trump comments on ‘Parasite’ Best Picture win

U.S. President Donald Trump took aim at “Parasite’s” historic Oscar wins at a Colorado rally on Thursday. “How bad were the Academy Awards this year?” he asked, prompting jeers from the …

Parasite wins best picture Oscar, making history

Parasite wins best picture Oscar, making history

'Parasite' by South Korea's Bong Joon-ho won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay. It is the first foreign-language film to win the Best Picture Category.  …

Oscars ceremony to be hostless again

Oscars ceremony to be hostless again

This year’s Oscars ceremony will be without a traditional host for the second year running, according to the ABC entertainment president, Karey Burke. “We expect that we’re going to have a very commercial set of …

Three Russian films to seek Oscars

Three Russian films to seek Oscars

‘Beanpole,’ a film by Russian director Kantemir Balagov, is among the ten films competing for the Best International Feature Film category of the 92nd Academy Awards. Other entries on the shortlist are The Painted Bird …

Georgia selects film for Oscar nomination

Georgia selects film for Oscar nomination

Georgia has selected a film 'Shindisi' directed by film director Dimitri Tsintsadze to be presented for the Oscar nomination. The producer of the project Shindisi is Edmond Minashvili. The Georgian National …

Kazakh film among Oscar contenders

Kazakh film among Oscar contenders

The Kazakh film Ayka has been shortlisted together with eight other films for the 2019 Oscar for best foreign-language motion picture. The film by Kazakh director Sergei Dvortsevoy is about the ordeals of an …

Georgia announces its bid for 2019 Oscars

Georgia announces its bid for 2019 Oscars

Filmmaker Zaza Khalvashi’s Namme will be Georgia’s bid for the next Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film, after a jury team in Tbilisi announced the feature as winner of a national contest. The …

90th Academy Awards in Los Angeles

90th Academy Awards in Los Angeles

The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, better known by the nickname of its award - the Oscar - was held inside the famed Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water has won the Oscar for best picture at the …

Russia's Holocaust film Violin to seek Oscar

Russia's Holocaust film Violin to seek Oscar

Russia's short film Violin, part of a full-length project in memory of Holocaust victims, seeks to contend for an Oscar award, film producer Yegor Odintsov said. "Representatives of the American Academy of …

Iran's 'The Salesman' wins Oscar

Iran's 'The Salesman' wins Oscar

The 89th Annual Academy Awards were held today at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Iran's The Salesman won the award for the best foreign-language film after the nomination stirred controversy after President Trump's …

White House: Hollywood known for being rather far to left

White House: Hollywood known for being rather far to left

White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that he doesn’t know why actors have suddenly taken to criticizing the president while accepting awards this season. “I have no idea. It’s a free …